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Informationen zum Autor Wen-hsin Yeh is Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor in History at the Institute of East Asian Studies! University of California! Berkeley. She is author of The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China and Provinical Passages: Culture! Space! and the Origins of Chinese Communism (UC Press) and editor of Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond! 1900-1950 (UC Press). Klappentext "What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."-David Strand! author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s "This in an outstanding work. Although Shanghai has been among the most popular subjects for scholars in modern Chinese studies! one has yet to see a project as impressive as this. Yeh tells a most fascinating story."-David Der-wei Wang! author of The Monster That Is History: History! Violence! and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China Zusammenfassung Traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Focusing on Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, this book sketches the rise of a maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Material Turn 2. The State in Commerce 3. Visual Politics and Shanghai Glamour 4. The Clock and the Compound 5. Enlightened Paternalism 6. Petty Urbanites and Tales of Woe 7. From Patriarchs to Capitalists Epilogue: The Return of the Banker Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
